Show AN EXHAUSTED FUND The Senate ITitliont Money to Continue lit Investigations New York I7nls Washington The ucle s ueaigMi > r N jmhorized by democrats of the tingle fi > r the purpose of securing cuinpaign cpittl tave been to costly th the senates contingent fund has been eihaustd Davis flits spent from 10000 to 15000 in his examination examina-tion ot the svttejn of bookkeeping used by the treauy department and Voor bees attempt to discover why colored people have exercised their right to emigrae from one stat to another has cot about S100CO Democrats have induced tto House to authorize the addition addi-tion o1 15000 to the Senates depleted fund and arc now trying to induce the Senate to Cncur in tim action Republican Republi-can senators are det rintned that there shall be some explaca ions of the cause of the deficit and with this object m view have succeeded in postponing action until Monday Eaton who has charge of the resolution ha informed republican republi-can senators that ha cannot show why the fund has bsen exhausted and Edmund has called upon the secretary of tho Senate for a statement Eaton protests against poitpocment on the grounds that witnesca who have appeared ap-peared before the committee are telling the government promises to pay at SO cents on a dollar When Edmunds resolution inquiry was offered today Davis lought to break tho force of the answer which mustcpme by moving that tho statement furnished the secretary should include the expenses so fir back as 1878 but as the staernents for ISiS and ISW are alrealy in print he was forced to withdraw his amendment Conkling briefly reviewed the course of tho demnc ats in authorizing useless in estigation and showcd how worthless and expensive these partisan hunting exp ex-p ditioD6 have been |